NIAD

Great call on Arabian! I always thought this would be a perfect game to release on the ColecoVision and with today's talented group of programmers, we'd get the entire game with all the screens. As far as Ali Baba, I never cared for it and if someone is going to program a maze style game, I would rather see Wizard of Wor finally make it's way to the CV.

That NOTICE slip looks very "unofficial" and was probably printed-up by one of a number of companies like ADAM's House/eColeco, American Design Co., Kosowsky Repairs, etc. (as well as NIAD... we had huge boxes of the beige controllers) that bought huge lots of ColecoVision and ADAM Computer stock in the big sell off circa 1985. In the case of the beige Hand Controllers that were originally included with the Stand-Alone ADAM Computer, I recall that these were all that was available for purchase, in LARGE lots, from Coleco so by this time there would have been a lot of mixing and matching of parts to make a complete package by Coleco and also by the companies that bought stock from Coleco. I would guess that this ColecoVision came from American Design Components. The systems and all the including items look to be in excellent shape and probably unused except for a quick test and you'll even get a Donkey Kong cart that read it's for use with the "ColecoVision & ADAM Computer" compared to just "ColecoVision", which most people have.

Thanks for the update and your continued development of Side Trak!!! Looks like we're gonna end up with a better game (almost 30 years after the fact) than what Coleco would have provided!!! Guess you can say that things happen for a reason sometimes.

Thanx. There's one on eBay right now that I figured was a homebrew creation or possibly a "later" TeleGames UK release. BTW, are you selling?

Dragon - The Chinese Challenge by Reedy Software - 1989 No extra hardware requirements The game of Dragon was inspired by the centuries old Chinese game called Mah-Jongg (other computers and consoles have versions available as well and some are called Shanghai) which requires one to clear a board of 144 strategically layered tiles by matching pairs. The tiles are laid out in a formation called "The Dragon" and it is built by mixing the tiles and placing them in stacks from one to five high. Finding matches is made a little more difficult due to the lack of color tiles, but Dragon is still a very good rendition of Mah-Jongg/Shanghai. This game came with a printed manual that I do not have available. If anyone out there has access to the manual, it would be greatly appreciated if you can post it here for everyone. Works with all ADAM Emulators. Dragon - The Chinese Challenge (1989) (Reedy Software).zip

Does anyone know what the original TeleGames release of Boulder Dash looked like? Was it a grey label with black printed text like other TeleGames releases or was it with a CBS Software style label (top half black and bottom half white) with the game title printed in red?

There is a Composite Monitor output already thru the DIN connector, it should work with modern TVs and I think the Commodore 64 Monitor Cable is compatible (Coleco made ADAM Monitor Cables are hard to find).... I'll let you know when my ADAM arrives (soon I hope) as I already have a C=64 Monitor Cable. The Commodore Monitor Cable is indeed completely compatible wth the Stand-Alone ADAM Memory Console (the one with the built-in ColecoVision) as I remembered it being from back in the day. The Commodore Monitor Cable I have was listed for the Commodore 1702 Monitor and compatibile with the C=64, 128 and Vic-20. So if you can't make your own, a little searching around the Net or on eBay should provide you one for between $5-$10. Just remember that the ADAM's DIN Connector is upside down when compared to the Commodore's, so the word TOP on the cable's DIN Connector is actually the bottom. BTW, vastly improved video over using the RF Out.

There was a CBS Super Action Controller BOX, but I have never seen a CBS style Super Action Baseball CART. The only cart I have ever seen is the Coleco released version, so I highly doubt a CBS version ever existed.

20,035... I give!

Looks like there's gonna be a run on Roller Controllers over at eBay!

Nice! +1 x 2

Funny Video. +1 for you Yurkie... hope the MPAA doesn't come knocking!

The -harddisk switch is not something to be all that concerned about right now as there is no means to create a hard drive image file unless you actually own an ADAM and a hard drive formatted for use with an ADAM. It will function similarly to running a disk or data pack image, just A LOT larger of course. The -eprom switch provides support for a boot eprom that could be installed on a 3rd party interface board called the Multi-Purpose Interface 3. This board provided 2 Serial Ports, 1 Parallel Port, Addressing for memory expanders larger than 64K and of course an open socket that one could installed an eprom into that was burnt with the hard drive utility software. Once you turned on the ADAM, the software contained on the eprom would be loaded and the hard drive would be accessible (then if you wanted, you could exit to the SmartWRITER Word Processor or boot other programs from the hard drive). One could also burn other programs onto the eprom and have them boot-up when the ADAM was turned on instead of SmartWRITER. Geoff has also implemented basic MIDI drivers in order to support the one an only MIDI interface made for the ADAM, the MIDI-MITE. The drivers for it are not complete but will at least allow for the loading of a number of MIDI software programs that were developed by Bonafide Systems for the ADAM.

The games were outsourced to different small companies in most instances so that would explain the differences in ports from one system to another (as well as the actual system hardware) and even Coleco developed Q*bert for Parker Brothers. Check out this link for some very interesting tidbits about small development firms that played a large role in the programming of games on the CV and even ADAM: http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Special:Search?search=ColecoVision&fulltext=Search

It's a good thing "FRAGILE" was written on the package, or else it would have probably been crushed to a pulp. Also, I would like to point out that I wrap each game in bubble wrap before placing them in the shipping box, a fact that is not shown in ten-four's picture. Thanks Ole. Write "Fragile" on a box , it is the best way to make some postman play soccer with , believe me that's not a joke unfortunaly. Kinda like in Ace Venture when Jim Carey's character is delivering a fake packge to a dog-napper... never knew there are so many ways to abuse a package and the movie probably gave postal workers some new ideas.

Thank you Niad Scale2x effectively command allows a game screen much bigger and more video-2 By the command -scale2x is not in the list of commands-documented in -help, then I wonder how you know this command? Merci Niad Effectivement la commande -scale2x permet d'avoir un écran de jeu bien plus grand en plus de -video 2 Par contre la commande -scales2x n'est pas dans la liste des commandes documentées dans -help, alors je me demande bien comment tu connais cette commande ? There are a couple other switch commands listed by Geoff in Post #04 of this thread that are not included in the -HELP command.

ADAMem SDL for Windows does not let you go into a fullscreen mode yet that I know. You can use the -scale2x to increase the window size or one of the -video switches to change the window size. There is no way to disable the DOS window yet either that I know. You can always minimize it. This all depends on what joystick emulation mode switch you use or don't use. The Coleco/ADAM hand controller is mapped as: directional control = arrow keys or your PC gamepad fire buttons = CONTROL and ALT keys or your PC gamepad keypad = keyboard keys 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,-,= or numeric keypad 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,DEL,ENTER Your PC controller/joystick/gamepad is automatically configured by the emulator and you can not change the configuration yet that I know of. I haven't played around with the -keys switch, even with the original ADAMem for DOS and I'm not exactly sure what you are asking here, but I hope this is what you want: Use the -joystick 3 switch. This will assign the PC numeric keypad to be player #1's controller keypad and control will be thru the PC gamepad. Also, player #2 will then use the keyboard arrow keys for movement and the number buttons above the letters as their keypad. Don't forget, if for some reason your PC gamepad is unresponsive, press F9 to switch from ADAM keyboard emulation mode to Coleco/ADAM hand controller emulation mode.

I haven't had time to sit down with ADAMem SDL and really test everything, but hopefully this weekend I'll get that chance now that football season is officially over... yeah, Bears fan.

Thanks for sharing the video Daniel. Been waiting to play this one on the CV for over 28 years and it looks like the wait is almost over!

Steve's an extremely busy guy with work and a number of personal projects he's been working on, so if time permits for him I will shoot him a list of questions.

RoboThief by Steve Pitman Software (No extra hardware requirements) Welcome to RoboThief! A visiting alien from the planet ADAM needs your help, he ran into another visiting alien from the planet called NES, and was robbed and put under a spell! He'll tell you more about it on screen 1. You are in control of 3 robots aboard the enemys ship, use them to steal everything back so that the Adamite can return to his planet! But it's not going to be easy! it will take a lot of skill. You must simultaneously maneuver three radio-controlled robots through 30 screens while avoiding walls, security alarms, disintegrating slime blocks, collecting $1, $5, and $10 bills, droping bombs to expose cyrstals hidden in the floor (special crystals needed by the aliens for their return to planet Adam), avoiding or using RoboFreezers, using strategy with the arrow-blocks, and all within a certain time limit! Sound confusing so far? Just wait until you see some of the harder screens! There are also many warp doors that you can use to skip ahead or back in the game, but you must figure out how to use them first! This is one tough game and will take a while to get used to the play controls. I have included PC format instruction and tip files that are also contained on the disk image and the game will play in all ADAM Emulators. Enjoy! RoboThief (1991) (Steve Pitman Software).zip

I put him in touch with someone in his area that has all the necessary equipment to get the cart dumped and converted to a PC rom file. So now it is just a matter of waiting and hoping!

Campaign '84, Gust Buster, Rolleroverture and Quest for Quintana Roo were released with a GOLD cart label only and originally in a YELLOW box and then later in a SILVER box. Mountain King was released with a SILVER cart label only as well as only a SILVER box. As far as shrinkwrapping... hard to say. EDIT: I stand corrected... I just say this silver label Quest for Quintana Roo on eBay :!:

Got my Six-Pack of CV joy today and am thoroughly impressed with everything (boxes, manuals, carts... the whole sheebang!) that I have had time to look over so far. Of course, my daughter had to play Peek-A-Boo first and while the gameplay is simplistic even for her (got another Wii expert on my hands), the audio and visuals are top notch. Can't get enough of the audio samples of Elmo talking... truly amazing quality especially coming from a ColecoVision. Can't wait to get the kiddies to bed so that I can have some quiet time to enjoy the rest! Thanks Luc, as well as everyone else involved in making these games.

The A/V Modded ColecoVision works GREAT with the Exp. Mod. #3 ADAM Computer as well... never had a better picture display from the ADAM! Thanks once again for your tremendous service Yurkie.